The table below is a total summary overview of the underlying science for skin-to-skin contact. Each row links to a “one page abstract”; I shall add more in time. All this information is, however, explained in greater detail in the various talks that I give, and I am prepared to customise content to courses and workshops with specific needs.

Skin-to-skin contact is  A PLACE	SSC is a place where CARE is provided!  Our care does not change… it is a place where any care we give works with our biology.
Skin-to-skin contact is OUR BIOLOGY	It is the only place in which newborns have survived for the last million years, and developed toward optimal health.
Skin-to-skin contact is IN OUR DNA	Our DNA, our genes, are adapted to this PLACE, the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA).
Skin-to-skin contact is RIGHT SENSATIONS	The DNA makes a brain that is able to take in expected sensations: mother provides the first sensations that make the brain work well.
Skin-to-skin contact is NEUROSCIENCE	Birth is a critical period – it is the earliest sensations that fire the earliest essential brain pathways, both in the baby and the mother.
Skin-to-skin contact is BASIS for BREASTFEEDING	SSC makes the brain feel safe, which makes an approach orientation toward the breast; and then also ensures sleep cycling between meals.
Skin-to-skin contact is NORMAL	In our western culture we separate mothers and babies; SEPARATION  is highly ABNORMAL to baby’s biology, genes and brain.
Skin-to-skin contact is OPPOSITE of SEPARATION	Separation is the WRONG PLACE… the physiology is dysregulated, the DNA must adapt, and the brain loses  its resilience.
Skin-to-skin contact is EVIDENCE-BASED	Our culture separates mothers and babies ONLY because it is seen as normal. There is evidence that separation  produces HARM.
Skin-to-skin contact is FOR ALL NEWBORNS	Skin-to-skin contact for healthy newborns therefore means ZERO SEPARATION from birth.
Skin-to-skin contact is SPECIALLY for PRETERMS	The more premature a newborn is, the less resilience it has, the more it needs skin-to-skin contact. (But the more we separate…)
Skin-to-skin contact is BASED ON MOTHER	Mothering is biology… and that biology sees the mother and infant as a DYAD, a single unit.  SSC is good for mother’s brain and body also!
Skin-to-skin contact is GOOD FOR FATHERS	Fathers can and should do SSC. The more premature the baby, the more skin-to-skin is needed, the more father should help.
Skin-to-skin contact is SAFE – BUT DO SAFELY	Everything we do must be done safely – skin-to-skin contact is the safest for any baby… but must be done safely – TECHNIQUE matters.